劳伦斯·大卫：1963年出生在美国波士顿（马萨诸塞州）。1985年毕业于本宁顿学院，1987年在纽约大学获得研究生学位。既创作儿童图书，也为大人们写书。戴勒菲妮·杜朗：儿童绘本作家，插画家，出生在法国葡萄酒之乡——第戎，毕业于法国斯特拉斯堡装饰艺术学院。画风独特，画面细节丰富，已在欧洲和美国出版过多部作品。两位作者共同合作的绘本还有《好心的小女孩》。

《卡夫卡变虫记》的故事灵感来源于卡夫卡短片小说《变形记》。一天早上，小男孩卡夫卡一觉醒来，发现自己变成了一只棕紫色的超级大甲虫。但是没人注意到他变形了——他的父母、他的小妹妹、他的老师——除了他最好的朋友迈克尔，谁都没注意到。迈克尔想让卡夫卡变回小男孩，卡夫卡也很想变回去。可为什么他会变成甲虫呢？为什么大家好像都没发现呢？卡夫卡在寻找答案，也在找回自己……

Beetles squeak and beetles glow. Beetles stink, beetles sprint, beetles walk on water. With legs, antennae, horns, beautiful shells, knobs, and other oddities - what's not to like about beetles? The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on earth is a beetle. There are over 350,000 different species named so far and scientists suspect there may be as many as ...(展开全部)

Beetle in the Anthill (Russian: Жук в муравейнике) is a 1979 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe. Beetle in the Anthill is the title of a theory explaining the Stepchildren phenomenon. Another example of such a title in Strugatskys' books is the Roadside Picnic, describing a possible origin of the "Zones".

The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder . . . While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves mor...(展开全部)

The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder . . . While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves mor...(展开全部)

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twel...(展开全部)

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from the author of The Boy in the Dress and Mr Stink. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. But Joe isn't ha...(展开全部)

黑人作家。1908年9月4日生于密西西比州纳切兹附近的一个种植园里。祖父是奴隶，父亲是种植园工人，后弃家出走。母亲是乡村教师。赖特进过孤儿院，曾在几个亲戚家寄养，15岁起独立谋生。他从小深受歧视，对社会、尤其对周围的白人世界怀着又恨又怕的心理。这种心理状态不仅在他的著名的自传《黑孩子》(1945)中作了生动的描述，而且在他的小说中也有所反映。赖特离家后曾在孟菲斯、芝加哥等地从事各种体力劳动，同时勤奋自学，立志成为作家。他爱读德莱塞、刘易斯、安德森等现实主义作家的作品，深受他们的影响。30年代美国经济萧条时期，赖特长期失业，对美国贫富悬殊、种族歧视的社会有了进一步认识。1932年加入美国共产党，学习运用马克思主义的观点去观察社会，这使他后来的创作能够比较深刻地发掘生活，揭露社会的矛盾和黑暗面，向社会提出控诉和抗议，因而成为30至40年代美国左翼文学中所...(展开全部)

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough mi...(展开全部)